Improvement in cooking-ranges



PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. BURTIS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-RANGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,681, dated July 4, 1871.

`nearest to the iire,but apart from the dust and ashes incident to the doors, orming a convenient substitute for the ordinary warming-closet.

Figure 1 is avertical longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 a plan view of my improved range.

The distinguishing feature of cooking-ranges being an ample front, with the openings for ac cess to the interior arranged along' an extended plane, my improvement makes this characteristic more prominent by providing, in addition to the longitudinal front for cooking, the convenience of a platform or shelf built upon the end of the range, thus extending the front still further than as ordinarily constructed without interferin g with the cooking-space, forming a convenient receptacle for setting utensils and keeping dishes of food Warm, thereby dispensing with the appendage of a Warming-closet.

As shown in the drawing, A A is the body of the range 5 B, the oven; C, the fire-chamber; D, the ash-drawer and G, the platforin or Warmingextension. This platform is attached to the end nearest the fire-chamber, and at about the level of the grate, so as to receive warmth from the hottest portion. The doors to the fire-chamber and ash-pit are on the front side of the range, and the latter below the level of the platform, there being no opening on the Warming side whereby dishes Would be exposed to ashes or dust, and its proximity to and lateral arrangement with the top or cooking-surface insures great compactness with the utmost convenience.

I claim- 'lhe platform-extension projecting from the body of the range, and forming a part thereof on the side nearest the fire-chamber and arranged, at 'or near the level of the grate, to form a substitute for a Warming-closet, said platform and the side of the range from which it projects being formed without doors, dampers, air-passages, or other openings, to prevent the access of dust and ashes, substantially as set forth.

JNO. H. BURTIS.

Vitnesses v KATE N. JONES, W'ILLIAM M. SEYMOUR. 

